Posts from — May 2010

Well hello there everyone!  I hope you had a great holiday weekend (Memorial Day here in the good ole US of A)!

We’ll get back to the bacon goodness tomorrow…right now, I just have to share this. 

This just killed me. Did you see the giant safety pin?  Brilliant!

Talk to ya’ll tomorrow.

FoTDB* Justin has been on a roll this week.  He’s practically served as my personal bacon news guru through his finds this week!  He gets ALL the credit for this picking this one out…

Available over at Spiffy Studios – $23.00 includes s/h.

(* Friend of “The Daily Bacon“)

I was catching up on my nerd sites tonight when I came across this…

It may not be pretty now…but in a few weeks it’s going to become a oatmeal, coffee, bacon stout! 

Sean Fallon at Nerd Approved is an avid home brewer with a dream.  That dream, to take three of his favorite things – bacon, coffee and beer – and put them all together in one tasty beverage.

He is chronicalling his brewing experience over the next few weeks over on the site!  TDB wishes you well Sean (and any chance I could get you to send a bottle this way???)

What a week this has been for bacon inginuity.  Colored bacon yesterday, homemade bacon beer today…what glorious idea will come next???

via Nerd Approved

I’m gonna let the pictures do the talkin’ here…

Yes, that is a rainbow of bacon!  Why?  Because someone (a certain Neil Caldwell) dared to dream.

I don’t know how I feel about this and have reservations about eating anything that blue or purple or green but I will give the man some credit, he’s gone and done something pretty unique.

Thanks to FoTDB Justin for the heads up on this story found on Bacon Today.

I had this ready to post yesterday (on it’s regular feature day) but given my work schedule and complete lack of sleep the night before (thanks to a teething Lil’ Baird) I completely forgot to hit publish. Soooo anyway…here’s your day late “Better with Bacon” feature for the week.

Yeah, that’s right, bacon and peanut butter in a convienent cookie form!  Get the nice and easy recipe after the jump… [Read more →]

After a long day on the road for work, I popped into Famous Dave’s on the way home…

Notice that’s not a question on the back of that shirt

As a bonus…here’s the chopped pork “salad” I had tonight…

now THOSE are BACON BITS!!

Have a great weekend everyone.

It’s technological innovation like this that will help bring our domestic auto companies out of recession!

I want to see this at the 2011 North American International Auto Show!  Do you hear me Big Three???  Get on it!

Man o’ man, these last few weeks have completely killed my “scheduled” feature posts.  To make up for not having a “Better with Bacon” segment for a while, here are THREE recipes that I pulled from the “Detroit News” bacon article from last week…Chocolate Bacon, Hot Bacon-Blue Cheese Dressing and Bacon Waffles (the latter I plan on making for my family this weekend).

Happy Cooking! [Read more →]

Started a brand new job yesterday!!  YEAH!!! 

So it was a day full of firsts…how do I drive to the office, where do I park, setting up voicemail, email, blah, blah, blah…

One of the biggest dilemmas is always where to go for lunch. Fortunately there are a few options in my new building. One is a deli just outside the main bank of elevators.  Pretty convenient I thought so in I went. 

They had a really strong sandwich board and it took me a while to decide but I finally ordered the #8 – turkey, bacon and thousand island on rye.

The sandwich is made in no time, wrapped with a pickle, didn’t cost an arm and a leg… I’m feeling pretty good about my choice.

That is until I get back upstairs and unwrap my sandwich.

WTF!!!  This is a deli and THAT is the bacon you are going to put on my sandwich???

Precooked, thin sliced crud!

I am sorry deli that I won’t name…you had one shot to win and you FAILED miserably.

Starting today I’m launching a new “series” on the blog simply called “Yummy!” featuring the tasty bacon foods that I like!

Just up the road from my humble abode is a little neighborhood bar called Brady’s.  It’s my de facto meeting place for a beer and burger lunch and the menu item of choice is typically this lovely thing…

It’s the Famous Burger, Charlie Brown style…and it is delicious!

Nothing special, just a basic half pound burger.  Swiss cheese and bacon make it “Charlie Brown”.  That’s it and that is why I like it so much.  Just a good tasting, simple burger.

The two strips may not seem like enough, but break them in half and you get bacon in every bite.

So if you are in town over a weekend and wanna grab lunch and a few cold ones in the middle of the day…just give me a call and I’ll meet you up there.